Kelvin Grady asked to move to DB?

This might be crazy, but if its true that Grady was asked to move, maybe its because Grady has had such a good camp so far? We have seen the benefit of knowing both sides of the ball when changing positions - Cam Gordon as case in point (if he learns to tackle). Perhaps the db coach, getting desperate, sees how athletic Grady is, how he has come to understand the offense side, thinks he is best suited for the position of need, and best able to make that transition?

Its crazy, counterintuitive, but perhaps?

Grady might understand that he has a better shot of making it in the NFL as a DB than as a WR. Undoubtedly, he sees a shot at more playing time, and a chance to help out the team by moving to DB.

Did he play CB in high school?

Grady obviously stood out in the scrimmage, but slot is one of the few areas of discernible depth on our squad. If he (or anyone) can make a bigger difference at DB, then I'm all for it. I don't know if I can take another year of teams repeatedly converting on third and seventeen against us.

If you say no one from the offense is moving, and then you do this, it means you don't like what you're seeing in practice.....

I haven't read the rivals blurb and I know that RR said no offensive players would move... so maybe this was Kelvin's idea?  Maybe he saw an opportunity and asked to be moved to DB?

Grady could make the move much more easily than anyone else on offense except Denard or Jeremy Gallon.  Denard obviously isn't moving and Gallon is rumored to not be in as good a shape as he could be.  Grady knows he is running out of time to make a difference at Michigan and leverage himself so that he doesn't have to take a "real job" out of college.

His defense in basketball notwithstanding, the habit of "point guard vision" has to help on defense.  On offense, the only position it would really help with would be QB, where he obviously wouldn't play.

I have been hoping that if they couldn't get enough help from the 17 safeties listed on the roster, someone would move to CB for depth.  Besides, Grady could find himself playing a lot after a few games.  You just never know.    

This certainly has been an interesting off-season.  Good or bad, there hasn't been much time to be bored.

There's really no point keeping him on offense with Odoms, Roundtree, Gallon, and Terrence Robinson at slot receiver.

Besides, he could very well suck at CB and get moved back to offense.

Regardless, it seems like a majority of players who get moved - especially late in their careers - end up as non-factors.  If Grady moves, it's probably just for depth, not to be a starter.  I'd rather toss Grady out there at CB than one or two of those freshmen we have...

You have to figure that Grady (supposedly) moving to DB is an attempt to get bodies in those positions.  I know he would have a tough time seeing a lot of time at the slot but I can't see him on the field much on defense either. 

What are the chances he sees the field, if he actually does move, this year.  Despite our depth issues it seems a pretty tough task to learn a new position less than two weeks before the season starts.

http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/info-kelvin-grady-defense

KingRichardX's post.  Guy was on target.

he is much more likely to bust out an "and one" finger role after a wicked cross-over passed Jon Scheyer to put Duke away at cornerback.  I like this move.

He has the ability to play CB.  If he can play RB, WR and basketball, I am sure he can adjust to CB and help out the team.  He would project better for the NFL at DB than any of the other positions, that is if he adapts to it, and plays well.

Is it too late to expect Grady to get enough practice at the position to be ready for the season?  If this move is true I just wonder why this didn't happen right after Woolfolk's injury so he could get as much time at the position as possible. 

no way.  he didn't like playing D for beilein.  why would he for RR?  seriously, though, he definitely is quick enough.

but if Mark is really pushing for the Mike and Kelvin can actually contribute at DB, we either have two wildly gifted players (which is possible) or we have some crazy bad issues on D. This is just from the standpoint of switching to the other side of the ball and understanding your reads so you can react to make a play. Making your reads correctly and quickly in addition to then reacting to stop the play can take years of work to perfect since so much is involved. It is not stand there and try to tackle (I know that could be argued this was our strategy the last few years, but you know what I mean).

if it works out, that just makes RR look better, not to mention it'll help the team out. If it fails, he can just move back to sr.

...to improve the team.  I'd imagine the coaches have a good idea of the tradeoffs involved.  I also imagine they wouldn't contemplate this unless they thought he could make a difference.  

Ya, my guess is that after the scrimmage they realized one or two things.

First, that KG would not see a ton of time at WR this season. 

Two, that although we may have one or two or three serviceable CBs, we need five or six to make it through the season. 

Three, KG probably knows the offense well enough by now that if we needed a SR for some reason he could move back mid-season. 

Anyways, this may or may not be true. But I don't think its a horrible decision either way. 

* Didn't Grady really well on offense in the recent scrimmage?

* Is there any chance that TRob could play CB?